Thursday, 31 January 2013

German settlers at Harkaway

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Many of Harkaway’s first European settlers were German Lutherans and in this post we look at some of these families. As we will discover man...
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Monday, 21 January 2013

Frog Hollow Reserve, Endeavour Hills

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Frog Hollow Reserve in Endeavour Hills has a number of sporting fields and is also an established wetlands  and  provides  a significant ...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Local shopping strips

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These are  photographs of local strip shopping centres, taken mainly in 1990s, by the City of Berwick. This is how we all used to shop befo...
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Thursday, 27 December 2012

Cardinia Creek at Soldiers Road, Beaconsfield

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The first four photographs, below, are of the Cardinia Creek at Soldiers Road, taken in the late 1970s. They also show the old wooden bridg...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Cr Jeune Matthews

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I wish to commemorate the passing of Cr Jeune Matthews, who was a Councillor from 1972 until 1988, originally for the Shire of Berwick and f...
Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Sister Hollins and Sister Lewis and the Pakenham Infant Welfare Centre

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There is a  new Childrens Centre in Pakenham, called the Hollins Children Centre.  It has two kindergarten rooms, a toy Library, a meeting...
Friday, 16 November 2012

Digitised World War One newspapers

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The State Library of Victoria has undertaken a project to digitise a number of World War One newspapers and these papers are now available o...